Sad final trip
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Sad final trip
BY KASEY WILLIAMS Observer staff reporter kaseyw@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 12 12:30 AM
Sad final trip
Late RJRGleaner CEO did not seek applause
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Late RJRGleaner CEO did not seek applause
Anthony Smith remembered for weighing decisions carefully, balancing firmness and humanity
BY ALICIA DUNKLEY-WILLIS Senior staff reporter dunkleywillisa@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 12 12:28 AM
Late RJRGleaner CEO did not seek applause
Lawyer calls for permanent fix
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Lawyer calls for permanent fix
...suggests copying Belize’s Criminal Justice Board
BY ALICIA DUNKLEY-WILLIS Senior staff reporter dunkleywillisa@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 12 12:26 AM
Lawyer calls for permanent fix
From hurricane escape to flooded fate
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From hurricane escape to flooded fate
Dover residents say flooding worse than Melissa, blame lack of drain cleaning
BY TAMOY ASHMAN Observer staff reporter ashmant@jamaicaobserver.com 
January 12 12:24 AM
From hurricane escape to flooded fate
Johan-Remaldo Smythe ready to put Holland High on the map
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Johan-Remaldo Smythe ready to put Holland High on the map
January 11 07:21 PM
Johan-Ramaldo Smythe showed that he is ready for all comers this season by smashing the Class One 100m record at the Purewater/RDanny Williams/JC Deve...
St Catherine taxi operator charged with murder
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St Catherine taxi operator charged with murder
January 11 04:45 PM
St CATHERINE, Jamaica – A St Catherine taxi operator has been charged with murder following the stabbing death of a man in Portmore, St Catherine on J...

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Flying first-class into the storm
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Flying first-class into the storm
Barbara Gloudon 
April 8, 2010
BUJU...BOUNTY...BEENIE...Iconic figures in our contemporary music kingdom... and they all have their problems. Buju, starving in a Florida jail...Boun...
God created Google. Give us a revolution in education!
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God created Google. Give us a revolution in education!
Franklin Johnston 
April 8, 2010
EDWIN Allen was a great innovator and 50 years ago the defining issue was access to secondary education. Our name-brand high schools were excellent bu...
Columns
Can we hear the rain?
Celta Kirkland 
April 8, 2010
1 KINGS 18:41-42,43a-44a: "Then Elijah said to Ahab, go enjoy a good meal, for I hear a mighty rainstorm coming. So Ahab prepared a feast, but Elijah ...
Will the PNP be ready?
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Will the PNP be ready?
Michael Burke 
April 7, 2010
So we all brace for more bad news as the budget is read today by finance minister Audley Shaw. When it was announced last year that Jamaica would retu...
Who are the sober politicians?
Columns
Who are the sober politicians?
MARK WIGNALL 
April 7, 2010
PNP MP Roger Clarke is one among that rare breed of politicians who have never attracted acrimonious criticism from either the media or his colleagues...
Columns
The Germanification of Israel
PATRICK WILMOT 
April 7, 2010
The State of Israel was ostensibly established to save the Jewish people from centuries of European anti-Semitism, which culminated in the holocaust a...
Columns
The love of ‘more’
Celta Kirkland 
April 6, 2010
Reflections in Prayer HEBREWS 13:5: "Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have because God has said, never will I ...
‘Shame and scandal in the family’
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‘Shame and scandal in the family’
Anthony GOMES 
April 6, 2010
The famous calypso Shame and Scandal in the Family aptly describes the shocking revelations in Ireland about child abuse by Catholic priests over many...
Extradition sidebars
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Extradition sidebars
Henley Morgan 
April 6, 2010
As every great leader knows, how he fights the war determines how he wins and keeps the peace. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy understood this well....
Private dancers
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Private dancers
Lloyd B Smith 
April 5, 2010
"I am your private dancer, a dancer for money I'll do what you want me to do Just a private dancer, a dancer for money And any old music will do" -- L...
Columns
The cross or the crown?
With Betty Ann Blaine 
April 5, 2010
HEART TO HEART Dear Reader, Those of us who are Christians - meaning disciples of Jesus Christ - understand how important Easter is as a time for extr...
Justice Minister correct in Coke’s extradition case
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Justice Minister correct in Coke’s extradition case
KEN CHAPLIN 
April 5, 2010
Investigations carried out by this writer have established beyond all reasonable doubt that while the Jamaican Supreme Court judge authorised the inte...
Columns
Love meets discipline at St John Bosco
Jean Lowrie-Chin 
April 4, 2010
The bed sheets were taut and tidy at the St John Bosco Boys' Home in Hatfield, Manchester. On each pillow was a clean comb, placed at the same angle. ...
Columns
Pushing water uphill in Jamaica
Howard Chin 
April 4, 2010
Remember Sisyphus of Greek mythology? His task in Hades being to forever push a rock uphill that immediately rolled downhill again. His name became as...
Columns
Who will save Caribbean Rum?
Sir Ronald Sanders 
April 3, 2010
The Caribbean rum industry is being abandoned left, right and centre with no Caribbean government yet rising to the challenge thrown down by the Europ...
Columns
Bad times for a good relationship
MARK WIGNALL 
April 3, 2010
WHEN Marsha, who sometimes works as a barmaid, is fired up with anger and hurls an earthenware dinner plate at her fleeing common-law husband, Tom, a ...
Columns
Obama’s next challenge
BY STEVEN R HURST Associated Press writer 
April 3, 2010
Fresh from a bruising victory on health care and a nuclear arms deal with Russia, President Barack Obama turned to a third campaign promise - victory ...
Columns
Of Vivian Blake and The Shower Posse
DIANE ABBOTT 
April 3, 2010
Last month Vivian Blake, one-time leader of the "Shower Posse" gang, died in the University Hospital of the West Indies. It is worth noting that very ...
Tolerance and Pain at a Time of Scandals
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Tolerance and Pain at a Time of Scandals
RICKEY SINGH 
April 3, 2010
ANALYSIS THIS weekend, when the Caribbean joins the rest of the world in observing the most sacred of festivals on the Christian calendar - the crucif...
Columns
The Pirates of the Caricom
James Moss-Solomon 
April 3, 2010
I wrote this column while on the way home from a few days in Trinidad where I attended a strategic planning meeting of Caricom. My last trip to the tw...
Columns
Iraqi PM takes risks by challenging vote
BY HAMZA HENDAWI Associated Press writer 
April 3, 2010
THE challenge by Iraq's Shiite prime minister to election results that showed him coming in a close second to his chief rival -- Sunni-backed Ayad All...

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